The Chipophone - Homemade 8-bit synthesizer

"The Chipophone is a homemade 8-bit synthesizer, especially suited for live chiptune playing. It has been built inside an old electronic organ" - YouTube.

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Croccydilesays...

Whoa. The arpeggiator really makes this one. It would not sound C64-like without one. Having a program mode is pretty damn nifty as well.

His website says it uses an 8-bit (heh) microcontroller programmed to synthesize 8 channels in realtime. I guess this makes sense since using real hardware would have required alot more circuity and complexity. Apparently it generates samples off a 38khz interrupt so that probably greatly simplifies timing (for correct tuning) on such a thing as well.

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